Happy monday stackers 🌞

There are memories of life that seem to stick out in my head. Memories that defined a certain period of my life and remind me of everything happening back then.

Some of these memories are also like event horizons to me -- I can see now that after those moments took place, it redefined my life trajectory without me even knowing it, without any going back.

In my own life, I can distinctly remember a time during covid lockdown delusion. I was biking almost daily during those summer and fall days, deep learning on all kinds of random topics that were seemingly relevant to my life.

I didn't realize it at the time, but those days were the mental bricks being laid at the foundation of what I'm doing today. But at the time, those days hurt.

A major career opportunity had just fallen through.

I was flipping old music gear for spare cash.

I was working at a podunk office confused about my direction.

Covid mania wasn't helping any of that.

It is funny thinking about the mental state I was in then (NOT GOOD) but realizing today how important those times were to the path I'm on. It all was inevitable in retrospect it seems.

I'm seeing now in the tech timeline that it's going through its own event horizon. Sora from OpenAI is fully throwing us into a world where we cannot tell what's real and what's not online any longer. The need for Bitcoin, protection of speech, and privacy in general is higher now than ever before..

It is funny to think of how primitive today's internet is.

Can you describe a time in your life when you had your own "crossing" event? When you knew (in the moment or after the fact), that once it happened, life for you would never be the same again?

How did you feel during those moments? Pain seems to be the commonly-threaded feeling associated with growth, but what else??